LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The RYA and Lombard make MARINE FINANCE SIMPLE For over 100 years the RYA has been looking after the interests of boat owners.

For almost as long Lombard has been providing finance to help people get...

Abigail revisited Readers of the Winter 2003/04 edition of the Lifeboat may remember a letter from Alan Jones recounting his airlift from the yacht Abigail with a suspected heart attack. He wrote with some embarrassment at eventually being...

Exercise with hovercraft: a shipping disaster occurs in the English Channel large numbers of passengers might have to be rescued and it is likely that a cross channel hovercraft will be directed to the scene to act as a floating casualty... - View image in PDF

An organisation funded totally by voluntary donations has a very special relationship with its friends.

Finding supporters, expanding and staying in touch with the supporter community is vital to the RNLI's future - as...

ON MARCH 4, 1824, a meeting was held in the City of London Tavern, presided over by Dr Manners Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, at which it was resolved to form the body which has since come to be known as the Royal National Lifeboat...

Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.

If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an important reason for...

BRIDLINGTON QUAY, YORKSHIRE. —On 3rd January the Life-boat George and Jane Walker was called out to the assistance of two sailing vessels which had been towed into the bay and left at anchor. During the night the wind changed into the E.S.E....

Derek Scott, BEM, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue in his own dinghy of two men on December 22, 1981. Coxswain Scott already holds three medals for gallantry... - View image in PDF